One dies of COVID, 25 new cases reported in a day

Another person has died of COVID-19 and 25 new cases have been reported in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours.

The deceased was a woman aged between 41 and 50. She was undergoing treatment at a state-run hospital in Dhaka.

According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), the latest death brings the total number of COVID-related fatalities this year to five.

Meanwhile, the number of confirmed cases has risen to 284.

In the past 24 hours, 25 new cases have been found after testing 231 samples.

The detection rate according to the sample test is 10.82 percent.

Of these, four people in the Dhaka Division tested positive for COVID-19 out of 50 samples, 11 in the Chattogram Division out of 137 samples, nine in the Rajshahi Division out of 31 samples, and one in the Sylhet Division out of five samples.

Since the emergence of the COVID-19 infection in Bangladesh in 2020, as many as 2.05 million patients have been identified from 15.73 million samples until Saturday. Of these, 29,504 people have died.

In 2020, 7,559 people died due to the virus.

The highest death toll was in 2021, with 20,513 deaths. Then, 1,368 people died in 2022, 37 in 2023, and 22 in 2024.

The DGHS has issued a new alert following a spike in infections from a new COVID-19 sub-variant in several neighbouring countries, including India, amid concerns over its potential spread elsewhere.

On Monday, the DGHS’s communicable disease control branch asked people to refrain from travelling to India and other countries where the outbreak is spreading, except for urgent needs.

It has also asked to increase health screening and surveillance at all places and airports to address the risk.